ShieldGemma
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Google DeepMind
- C · CEO & Politics
- Koray Kavukcuoglu (SVP, day-to-day lead) — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA / UK
- K · Key Staffers
- Demis Hassabis (Chair, GDM; Chief Scientist, Alphabet), Shane Legg (Co-Founder, Chief AGI Scientist), Lila Ibrahim (COO), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet CEO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Safety Model
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Gemma Terms of Use)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Google's ShieldGemma (July 31, 2024), open-weights safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 in 2B, 9B and 27B sizes that check user prompts and model responses against policies for four harms (sexually explicit content, dangerous content, hate and harassment) and answer Yes or No; trained mainly on synthetic data, the 9B beat Llama Guard by 10.8% in average AU-PRC on public benchmarks and topped WildGuard and GPT-4 in F1 by 4.3% and 6.4%.
- S · Stock / Status
- $344 (GOOGL, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @GoogleDeepMind
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Safety Model from Google DeepMind, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“ShieldGemma.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/shieldgemma.html
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